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We Explore Favorite Artist Edward Gibbs

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Program Goals Introduce Edward Gibbs and his art Encourage gross and fine motor skills Attendance: 20 Art Project Part 1: I Spy art (10-10:15) Kids draw pictures with pencils and pens around circles. Supplies  9x18 construction paper with holes cut pencils, pens Storytime/Snacktime: 10:15-10:40 I call people to storytime with the Storytime Song , then have the parents pass out the snack. Art Project Part 2: Painting (10:40-11) We painted the pictures we'd drawn. Supplies paint, brushes aprons, paper towels Evaluation 10-23-15 Attendance: 10 Feedback/Connections : Notes : This is a new author for this series. I'm surprised more libraries don't own his books as they're very appealing to kids.

Star Wars Celebration

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Program Goals Add a big program in October Bring people into the library Requests from patrons and staff Evaluation Attendance: 60 Feedback/Connections: People did remember the program from three years ago *wince* but this one went a lot better. It was low-key and everyone had fun. Notes: I meant to have a movie playing - one of the Star Wars Lego spoofs, but I forgot to check to see if our license covered it. Two buckets of duct tape next time! If you know me at all, you know I'm really not a "big program" person. I hate all the angst and stress of spending time and money and never knowing whether or not enough people to justify it will show up. My preference is for lots of little programs. However, I do try to do some big programs and I wanted to offer more Saturday programs this year, so we went with Star Wars. I was kind of nervous about it since I had a disastrous Star Wars program three years ago, but I hoped with additional help and more realistic activities it wou...